When I was growing up, there were a lot of lessons on staying safe online and data security, especially about using both a different password and a different username for each account. I still have most of my accounts under different services named differently! (And of course different passwords for everything too, hooray for password managers!)

If you happen to use different usernames for different things, how do you give them all names? Are they all themed about something you're interested in, are they just numbered (when I was in primary school, lots of people were lazy and had something like "alice1" "alice2"), or are they all just a random bunch of stuff with no order?

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[–] [S] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

Cool! My various devices are named after the moons, without the prefix "s":

  • "Callisto" is my main laptop: one of my favourite moons!
  • "Triton" is my Android phone: Neptune's largest moon, very far from the others
  • "Europa" is my fun Linux phone: I hope that, in the future, Linux phones will become the next big thing, like how Europa inspires hope for the search for life beyond Earth!
  • "Deimos" is my old laptop for self-hosted stuff: just a lil guy
  • "Charon" is my tablet: no reason, I just think Charon is pretty neat
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    Cool. My plex server is named ‘titus’ (but it’s a Linux server, and they don’t have drive names). my current laptop is named ‘janus’, and its hard drive is named ‘archimedes’.

    When I had my vintage Mac collection, I named them after planets, and they’re hard to drive after their moons. ‘Deimos’ was the name of the hard drive in my Quadra 9600 named ‘Ares’.

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